Clayton Bailey has made approximately 100 life-size robot sculptures
of found objects since 1976. He searches the local flea markets and scrap
metal yards for discarded home appliances, cookware, bicycle and automobile
parts. He carefully grafts the parts together into new forms; reincarnating
them as robot sculptures. The "past lives" of the robot's various
"mechanical molecules" are said to give them their soul.

His family of robot sculptures range from the humanoid to the pet dog
or exotic bird or insect. They don't walk around and break your china and
endanger your art collection. They are static; they stand still and blink
their lights. (The robot sculptures sometimes function as clocks and radios
that speak and sing in the native tongue wherever they travel.)